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[Since publishing the news post “Disappeared Sol LeWitt Painting Slowly Reappears in Houston Home” two days ago, I have been schooled by the Menil Collection and others very knowledgeable about…

The Austin-based collective Experimental Response Cinema (est. 2012)  is following up last year’s pre-inauguration screening of a program it called F*CK TR*MP with a screening marking the one-year anniversary of Trump’s presidency. This…

The only permanent art collection in The Woodlands (a master planned community outside of Houston) is at The Woodlands High School (TWHS), a public school. Over the past 7 years,…

Dirty Dark Place is a new artist-run space in Kyle, Texas (just south of Austin on I35) that will, over the course of one year, host some fantastic-sounding shows by…

  For more on this article, see the follow-up UPDATE: Why “Unerasing” a Sol LeWitt is Impossible. – Ed. Swamplot has a great article on the slow reappearance of a…

The Rockport Center for the Arts recently named Elena Rodriguez the organization’s new Curator of Exhibitions. Born in the Dallas area, Rodriguez spent her undergraduate years studying painting, film, and media at Washington University in St.…

So says artist Christoph Büchel, reports artnet. Büchel has started a petition calling for their preservation and protection, comparing them to Stonehenge or 20th-century land art. He is now giving…

Today, January 7th, at the Hardy and Nance Studios in Houston, there is an event celebrating the life and work of Michel H. Draper. Before Draper passed away recently, he lived and…

At a press conference earlier this week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that this spring, the institution will begin charging out-of-towners a mandatory admission fee. Set to…

Good news! In 2003 San Antonio-based artist Gary Sweeney completed an ambitious work, four years in the making, called The Story of Civilization Rewritten With Discarded Signs. Up until now, and…

As Glasstire reported in April, the for-profit Santa Fe-based arts company Meow Wolf is expanding nationally. After the success of its immersive, interactive installation (read: huge, trippy grownup playground), Meow…

Stella Sullivan, an influential Houston-based artist, passed away after a long illness on December 24, 2017, at age 93. Sullivan was a Texas Modernist who was most active in the…

Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre will start a short US tour, including Houston and Dallas, reports Digital Journal. He will play Houston on April 10, the same city where he…

Peter Zubiate, San Antonio-based artist, furniture maker, designer, and woodworker, passed away at age 47 on December 28, 2017 after a long illness. Zubiate was born in El Paso in…

The painted graffiti hanging over southbound drivers on I-45 freeway through downtown Houston declaring “Be Someone” has been has been a matter of discussion since it went up in (probably)…

This past summer Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art announced that it was launching a new residency offering emerging artists the opportunity to create a sound-based artwork to be featured in the museum’s…

On Christmas Eve, Swedish artist Carolina Falkholt painted a four-story penis on the side of a building in New York’s Lower East Side, reports The Independent. Commissioned by a street…

Every January 1st, a new round of artworks, pieces of literature, and other copywritten ideas, facts, and figures are released into the world, free of the figurative chains that bound their…

Happy new year and take care of each other! (And recover from the festivities because tons of exhibitions are opening this weekend.)    

In a recent email, Co-Lab Projects announced that the exhibition Good Mourning Tis of Thee was the organization’s final show at its temporary downtown DEMO Gallery space. Located at the corner of…